SECOND BANANA

Abbot and Costello

Hitler and Goring

Freud and Jung

Bush and Quayle

You get the point

There’s a place for seconds in this world

A place the seconds scoff at

And yet sometimes wear like a badge of honor

And sometimes escape to better things

What would it take for you to step out of the shadows and deal with the spotlight?

There would be the epithets

Usurper if it were sudden

Whore if you were young and female

Especially if you looked good in a dress

Witch if you were older and respectable

Gay if you were young attractive and male

Madman if you were older decisive and male

There’s no getting away from that

Remember the little slumdog covered in poo?

Mr. Bachchan saw nothing wrong with him

It was those with time on their hands

And no laurels to rest on who created all the fuss

Merlin knows Arthur is to be found somewhere hereabouts

Humble attentive quick worthy of the destiny he must fulfill           

                                                                                       ~  Sonali

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